China has successfully launched the Tianwen-2 mission, a historic milestone in the country's space exploration endeavors. In ...

A new "main-belt comet" — a comet-like object masquerading as an asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — has been identified, bringing the tally of these beguiling objects up ...

Main-belt comets are icy objects found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter—rather than the cold outer solar system where icy bodies are typically expected. They sport comet-like ...

China Wednesday launched its Tianwen-2 space mission to collect asteroid samples and conduct a main-belt comet study. A ...

China has released the first picture sent by its Tianwen-2 mission spacecraft which launched on May 28. While on its way to ...

China has revealed the first image from its Tianwen 2 asteroid sample return mission, which is now more than 3 million ...

These bodies, residing within the main asteroid belt, occasionally exhibit transient comet-like features such as dust tails and comae. This hybrid behaviour challenges traditional classifications ...

Tianwen-2 could help nab Kamo'oalewa's origins once and for all. After spending several months orbiting and observing the ...

Astronomers call them main belt comets. A Japanese spacecraft is already on the way to visit a dark comet—and the commanders of that mission didn’t even realize it until recently. With all ...

China's space agency says it has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars and yield “groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity’s knowledge of the ...